Network Cultures

Weeks 2 and 3

Aronowitz, Stanley and Barbara Martinsons (et al) eds. Technoscience and Cyberculture, London, Routledge, 1996.
Bender, Gretchen and Timothy Druckrey, eds. Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology. Seattle: Bay Press, 1994.
Conley, Vera Andermatt, ed. Rethinking Technologies. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F., A thousand plateaus : capitalism and schizophrenia : translation and foreword by Brian Massumi, Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1987
Dery, Mark ed. Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994
Dery, Mark, Escape Velocity. Cyberculture at the End of the Century, New York, Grove Press, 1996.
Heidegger, M., “The Question Concerning Technology”, in Basic Writings, San Fransisco: Harper, 1977, pp.283 – 318
Johnson, S., Interface Culture: How new technology transforms the way we create and communicate, Harper Collins, 1997
Kroker, Arthur and Michael Weinstein. Data Trash. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.
Lunenfeld, P., Snap to Grid: A User’s Guide to Digital Arts, Media and Culture, The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000
McLuhan, H. Marshall., Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965.
McLuhan, M. & Fiore, Q., The Medium is the Massage, Simon and Schuster, 1967
Markley, R. (ed), Virtual Realities and Their Discontents, Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press, 1996
Mitchell, William J. City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995.
Mosco, Vincent and Janet Wasko, eds. The Political Economy of Information. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988.
Murphie, A., & Potts, J., Culture & Technology, New York : Palgrave, 2003.
Penley, Constance and Andrew Ross, eds. Technoculture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991.
Poster, Mark. The Mode of Information: Postructuralism and Social Context. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
Rothenberg, David, Hand’s End. Technology and the Limits of Nature, Berkeley, Califirnia University Press, 1995.
Solymar, L., Getting the Message: A History of Communications, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 3-19

http://ezproxy.lib.swin.edu.au/login?url=http://onlineres.swin.edu.au/447894.pdf

Taylor, Marc C. and Esa Saarinen. Imagologies: Media Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Tofts, D. & Mc Keich, M., Memory Trade: A Prehistory of Cyberculture, 21C Books, Interface, 1997

Week 4

Harkin, J.,  Mobilisation: The growing public interest in mobile technology http://www.demos.co.uk/catalogue/mobilisation_page274.aspx
Plant, S., On The Mobile: the effects of mobile telephones on social and individual life http://www.motorola.com/mot/doc/0/234_MotDoc.pdf
McGuigan, J., Towards a Sociology of the Mobile Phone http://www.humantechnology.jyu.fi/articles/volume1/2005/mcguigan.pdf
Agar, J., Constant touch : a global history of the mobile phone, Cambridge : Icon, 2003
Ling, R., The Mobile Connection : The Cell Phone’s Impact on Society, Amsterdam : Elsevier / Morgan Kaufmann, c2004
Laurence, Ray, The roads of Roman Italy : mobility and cultural change. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Christian Lindholm & Turkka Keinonen, Mobile Usability: How Nokia Changed the Face of the Mobile Phone, New York: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2003
Katz, J., Machines that become us: the social context of personal communication technology. New Brunswick, NJ, Transaction Publishers, 2003

Week 5

Andrejevic, M., The Pacification of Interactivity, M/C reviews http://reviews.media-culture.org.au/features/interactive/mandrejevic-c.html

iPodder – Software for receiving podcasts

http://ipodder.sourceforge.net/index.php

The Media Report – Peas in a Podcast  5 May 2005 http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/mediarpt/stories/s1359286.htm
ABC podcasts
Radio National http://www.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/help.htm
DIG Internet Radio http://www.abc.net.au/dig/podcast/default.htm
Music of the Blogospheres – Background Briefing special on podcasting from 31.10.2004

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/stories/s1233531.htm

NetWeek’s Podcast Directory http://www.netweek.com.au/directory/podcasting/
Podcast Hotel http://www.podcasthotel.com/

Week 6

The papers presented at 2004 Blogtalk Downunder. Available from http://incsub.org/blogtalk/?page_id=38
Mitchell, Natasha (2004). ‘One is the loneliest number, the extended brain’. Griffith REVIEW Edition 3 – Webs of Power. http://www3.griffith.edu.au/01/griffithreview/get_content_file.php?id=236
Gillmor, Dan (2004). We the Media: Grassroots Journalism. By the People, For the People. O’Reilly Media, Sebastopol CA.
Pax, Salam (2003). The Baghdad Blog. Text Publishing, Melbourne.
Reed, David P. (1999). ‘That Sneaky Exponential—Beyond Metcalfe’s Law to the Power of Community Building.’ http://www.reed.com/Papers/GFN/reedslaw.html
Trippi, Joe (2004). The Revolution Will not be Televised: democracy, the Internet and the overthrow of everything. HarperCollins, New York.
Hourihan, M., What we’re doing when we blog, http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/06/13/megnut.html
Cross, Rob.  The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations.  Harvard Business School Press, Boston MA, 2004.
Cross, R., Liedtka, J., Weiss, L. “A Practical Guide to Social Networks.”  Harvard Business Review, March 2005, Vol. 83 Issue 3, pp. 124-132
Rosenbush, Steve (2005).  ‘Hey, Come To This Site Often?’  BusinessWeek (13 July).  http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_24/b3937077_mz063.htm

Week 7

Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/
Creative Commons Australia http://www.creativecommons.org.au/
Lessig, Lawrence.  The Future Of Ideas: The Fate Of The Commons In A Connected World.  Vintage Books, New York, 2001.
Lessig, Lawrence. Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. Basic Books, New York, 1999.
Weber, Steven.  The Success of Open Source.  Harvard Business School Press, Boston MA, 2004.
Benkler, Yochai (2002). ‘Coase’s Penguin, or, Linux and the Nature of the Firm.’ The Yale Law Journal, vol. 112. http://www.yale.edu/yalelj/112/BenklerWEB.pdf
Drahos, Peter (1995) ‘Information Feudalism In The Information Society’. The Information Society. Vol. 11(3), pp. 209-222.
Leadbeater, Charles and Miller, Paul (2004). ‘The Pro-Am Revolution: How Enthusiasts are Changing our Economy and Society’. DEMOS. November 2004. http://www.demos.co.uk/catalogue/proameconomy/
Rheingold, Howard (2002). ‘Technologies of Cooperation’ in Smart Mobs: the next social revolution. Perseus Books, Cambridge MA, pp. 29─61.
Lessig, Lawrence (1999). ‘The Limits in Open Code’ in Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. Basic Books: New York, pp. 100─108.
Hof, Robert D. (2005). ‘The Power of Us’. BusinessWeek. June 20.http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_25/b3938601.htm
Goetz, Thomas (2003). ‘Open Source Everywhere’. WIRED. 11.11 November.http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.11/opensource.html
Raymond, Eric S. (1999). The Cathedral and the Bazaar. O’Reilly & Associates, Sebastopol, CA.
Rushkoff, Douglas (2003). ‘Open Source Democracy: How online communication is changing offline politics’. DEMOS. http://www.demos.co.uk/opensourcedemocracy_pdf_media_public.aspx
Wired Magazine ‘Remix Now’ issue (July 2005) @ http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.07/
Auletta, Ken (2001).  World War 3.0: Microsoft And Its Enemies. Profile Books, New York.
Geist, Michael (2005).  ‘Piercing the Peer-to-Peer Myths.’  First Monday (5 April).  http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_4/geist/
Pesce, Mark (2005b).  ‘Hyperpeople Visual Remix.’  Aeschatech (July).  http://www.aeschatech.com/hyperpeople/hyperpeopleremix.mp4.torrent (Bittorrent) http://video.google.com/videopreviewbig?q=hyperpeople&time=0&page=1&docid=3661188198768001674&urlcreated=1121007812&chan=Uploaded&prog=HYPERPEOPLE+Visual+Remix&date=Mon+Jun+27+2005+at+12%3A48+AM+PDT (Google Video)
Pesce, Mark (2004).  ‘Open Source Television.’  Smart Internet Technology CRC (14 July).  http://www.aftrs.edu.au/download.cfm?DownloadFile=F8F24DF5-2A54-23A3-67B101F6F364818C
Spar, Debra (2003).  Ruling the Waves: From the Compass to the Internet, a History of Business and Politics along the Technological Frontier, Harvest Press, New York.
Terdiman, Daniel (2004).  ‘Outfoxed Offered for Remix.’  Wired News (21 September).  http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65024,00.html
U.S. Supreme Court (2005). Decision on MGM v. Grokster and Streamcast Technologies. http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/27jun20051200/www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/04pdf/04-480.pdf.
The Power of Nightmares (2004) http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares
Outfoxed: The Film (2004) http://www.outfoxed.org
Wal Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005) http://www.walmartmovie.com/
Bittorrent http://www.bittorrent.com
Outfoxed (Firefox plug-in) http://getoutfoxed.com/
Siva Vaidhyanathan http://www.sivacracy.net/
The Complete 9/11 Timeline http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/project.jsp?project=911_project
Nine Inch Nails: ‘Only’ Remix Download http://www.nin.com/access/only/
Pesce, Mark (2005a).  ‘Piracy Is Good?’  Mindjack (13 May 2005).  http://www.mindjack.com/feature/piracy051305.html. Read Parts 1 and 2.
U.S. Supreme Court (2005). Decision on MGM v. Grokster and Streamcast Technologies. http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/27jun20051200/www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/04pdf/04-480.pdf.
Slyck – everything you need to know about p2p http://www.slyck.com/

Week 8

Balkin, Jack, ‘How Rights Change: Freedom of Speech in the Digital Era’, Sydney Law Review 26, 2004.
Confessions of an Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins http://www.henryjenkins.org/
Lewis Lisa, The Adoring audience : fan culture and popular media (ed) London ; New York: Routledge, 1992.
Marshall, P. D. ‘New Media – New Self: The changing power of celebrity’, in P. D. Marshall (eds), The Celebrity Culture Reader, Routledge: London, 2006.
Petersen, Anne, ‘Celebrity juice, not from concentrate: Perez Hilton, gossip blogs, and the new star production’, Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media 49: 2007, http://www.ejumpcut.org/trialsite/PerezHilton/index.html
Shefrin E. ‘Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and participatory fandom: mapping new congruencies between the internet and media entertainment culture’, Critical Studies in Media Communication, 21. 3 2004, 261-281.

Week 9

Cubitt, Sean, Digital Aesthetics, London, Sage Publications, 1998
Holtzman, Steven, Digital Mantras. The Languages of Abstract and Virtual Worlds, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1994.
Debord, Guy. The Society of the Spectacle. London: Verso, 1995.
Hayward, Philip and Tana Wollen, eds. Future Visions: New Technologies of the Screen. London: British Film Institute, 1993.
Laurel, Brenda, Computers as Theatre, Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1993.
Leggett, Mike, “Electronic Space and Public Space: museums, galleries and digital media”, in Continuum. Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 13, 2, 1999.
Lister, Martin. The Photographic Image in Digital Culture. New York: Routledge, 1995.
Lovejoy, Margaret. Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1992.
Lunenfeld, P., Snap to Grid: A User’s Guide to Digital Arts, Media and Culture, The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000
Mitchell, William J. The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994. 23-58.
Penny, Simon, ed. Critical Issues in Electronic Media. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.
Tofts, D., Parallax: Essays on Art, Technology and Culture, Interface Books, 1999

Week 10

TBA

Other interesting and related materials

Boal, I & Brook, J. Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information, SanFransisco: City Lights, 1995.
Brand, Stewart, The Media Lab : inventing the future at MIT, New York : Penguin, 1988
Crawford, A & Edgar, R., (ed’s), Transit Lounge, Craftsman House, 1997
Gibson, William. Neuromancer London: Gollancz, 1984
Inayatullah, Sohail.  ‘Causal Layered Analysis: Poststructuralism As Method’. http://www.metafuture.org/Articles/CausalLayeredAnalysis.htm
Madsen, Virginia, “Critical Mass” in World Art 1:78-82, 1995
More, Thomas, Utopia, available online at http://www.d-holliday.com/tmore/utopia.htm
Negroponte, Nicholas, Being digital, Sydney, Hodder & Stoughton, 1995
Orwell, G., Nineteen eighty-four, Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1954
Postman, Neil, Technopoly : the surrender of culture to technology, New York, Knopf, 1992
Rucker, R, Sirius, R.U and Queen Mu, eds. Mondo 2000: A User’s Guide to the New Edge, London, Thames and Hudson, 1993.
Slaughter, Richard (ed.).  Knowledge Base Of Futures Studies: Professional Edition (CD-ROM).  Brisbane: Foresight International, 2005
Slaughter, Richard.  Futures Beyond Dystopia: Creating Social Foresight New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2004
Stephenson, Neal.  The Diamond Age New York: Bantam Books, 1995
Wark, McKenzie, “On Technological Time: Virilio’s Overexposed City” in Arena, 83:82-100, 1998
Dery, Mark, ‘Cyborging the Body Politic: Obsolete Bodies and Posthuman Beings’ in Dery, Escape Velocity, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996 pp 227 – 319.
Grant, I, ‘Black Ice’ in J Broadhurst Dixon and E J Cassidy (eds.), Virtual Futures: Cyberotics, Technology and Post-Human Pragmatism, London: Routledge, 1998, pp 100 – 108.
Gray, Chris Hables, ed. The Cyborg Handbook. New York: Routledge, 1995.
Hayles, Katherine, ‘Toward Embodied Virtuality’ and ‘Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers’ in Hayles, How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics, Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1999
Lucy, Niall, ‘Simulation and the Sublime’ in Postmodern Literary Theory: An Introduction, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997, pp. 22 – 41
Mirzoeff, N., Bodyscape: Art, Modernity and the Ideal Figure, New York: Routledge, 1995
Moravec, Hans, Mind Children. The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988.
Stone, Allucquere Rosanne, ‘Will the Real Body Please Stand Up?: Boundary Stories about Virtual Cultures in Michael Benedikt, (ed.)., Cyberspace: First Steps, Massachusetts, Mass., MIT Press, 1991 pp 81 – 118.
Stone, Allucquere Rosanne, The War of Desire and Technology At The Close of The Mechanical Age, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1996.
Stelarc, ‘From Psycho-Body to Cyber-Systems: Images as Post-human Entities’ in J Broadhurst Dixon and E J Cassidy (eds.), Virtual Futures: Cyberotics, Technology and Post-Human Pragmatism London: Routledge, 1998, pp 116 – 123
Buick, Joanna and Zoran Jevtic, Cyberspace for Beginners, Cambridge, Icon Books, 1995.
Gelernter, David. Mirror Worlds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Gibson, William, Neuromancer, London, HarperCollins,1993.
— Count Zero, London, HarperCollins, 1987.
— Mona Lisa Overdrive, London, HarperCollins, 1989.
— “Johnny Mnemonic”, “The Gernsback Continuum” and “Burning Chrome” in
— Burning Chrome, London, HarperCollins, 1993.
Heim, Michael. The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Krueger, Myron G. Artificial Reality II. Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1991.
Stephenson, Neal, Snowcrash, New York, Bantam, 1993.
Tofts, D. & Mc Keich, M., Memory Trade: A Prehistory of Cyberculture, 21C Books, Interface, 1997
Mitchell, William J. City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995. Available at http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/City_of_Bits/contents.html See also http://www.ctheory.com/r41-transurban_optimism.html
Mitchell, William J., e-topia: Urban life, Jim – but not as we know it, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999.
Wertheim, Margaret, The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace. A History of Space from Dante to the Internet, Milsons Point, Doubleday, 1999.
Woods, Lebbeus, “The Question of Space” in Aronowitz and Martinsons, eds. Technoscience and Cyberculture, London, Routledge, 1996.
Bey, Hakim. T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism. New York: Autonomedia, 1985.
Bukatman, Scott. Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.
Meyrowitz, J., No sense of place : the impact of electronic media on social behaviour, New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1986, c1985
Rheingold, Howard, The Virtual Community. Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1993.
Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995.
Turkle, Sherry. The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984.